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Seventies Soulchild: good... & you? AYWalton, I have a family that needs your expertise. Charge them as much as you like... lol

AYWalton: I see. that's interesting, who is the family?

Seventies Soulchild: The family of one Doc Owens out of Arkansas and Mississippi.

Spivey: Hi everyone!

AYWalton: howdy Spivey.

Seventies Soulchild: Hello Spivey.

AYWalton: have you been helping them with research?

Seventies Soulchild: Actually, no. They are the people who keep insisting that we are related, but we are not. I've tried to help them a little, but they keep on insisting. I told them to do some add'l research in northern MS for their Owens family. The impression that I get is that they are only using the census records to trace their family and nothing else.

AYWalton: oh well-----I don't need another project.

Seventies Soulchild: Me either. . .

3rdthawkins: Welcome everyone

Seventies Soulchild: I referred them to your youtube videos.

Spivey: Hi 3rdthawkins!

AYWalton: thanks, SoulChile.

Seventies Soulchild: So what else is going on with everyone's research??

3rdthawkins: you must not research in SC often jhonora ROTFLMBO lol there's Adelaide

jhonora: lol

AYWalton: Greetings, VKN!!!!! Did not see you slip in the door!

3rdthawkins: Adeline, Ardelle, Adell, Della, Delle there's a slave owner by the name of Adelaide E. Gibbes as Spivey said, I didn't know how common that name was until I started researching it.......I only knew of Adelaide on Diff'rent Strokes

jhonora: I had a g-g-g-g-grandmother A-dell-i-eed (Adelaide).

Spivey: It's not quite as common as 'Uncle Bubba' though 3rdthawkins which every southern family seems to have one of. No given or surname, just 'Uncle Bubba'.

3rdthawkins: my grgr gm Adelaide, then her son and her daughter named their daughtes Adelaide, and my gf gave Adelaide to one of his daughtes as a middle name well, Nicknames are often more common than given names Spivey

Spivey: Perhaps.

3rdthawkins: just like surnames, a Nickname can be given for different reasons

Spivey: I know. Like 'Popeye' described some physical characteristic. There were a lot of Popeyes too.

3rdthawkins: I know in the Bible, Given names were given for specific reasons (like a person's character, personality, or something the parent has been through it means more to the parent than the child)

vkn: AYW we will be looking for fokes on the ground to people the AfriG booth in MD.

3rdthawkins: hello ryan

AmosNY: Hi VKN! Hello Ryan!

ryan: Hi all - 3rd, Amos, AY, Jhonora, 70's, Spivey and VKN

Spivey: 3rdthawkins that extends beyond the bible. My surname SPIVEY means denoted a lazy, shiftless person in Ireland. It is also of English derivation, but I don't know its meaning in English.

ryan: Sup Khatu

Spivey: Hi ryan!r

jhonora: Evening ryan and khathu

vkn: Amos!

3rdthawkins: Oh, definitely, I'm sure it does Spivey I believe so

Spivey: Hi Daviss!

3rdthawkins: hello Davis

daviss: hello everyone!

3rdthawkins: s

AmosNY: Hi Daviss!

AYWalton: Greetings, daviss!!

ryan: Sup Daviss

AYWalton: jhonora you need a seatbelt?

jhonora: I do, maybe string and glue too.

Seventies Soulchild: hi vkn daviss ryan

AYWalton: are you in class now, jhonora?

Seventies Soulchild: Y'all I'm going to have to talk to you in a few... brb

jhonora: No indeed, AY.

AYWalton: when do classes start? ok SoulChile.

jhonora: Oh yes, AY. We've been back three weeks. Thought you meant "now"

AYWalton: lol how many credits as you being your sophmore year?

vkn: I guess alt is making his super presentation long about now

Spivey: What is your major jhonora and minor if you have one?

AYWalton: hope you are taking some interesting history courses.

jhonora: I'm taking 18 hours. I'm a history major.

Spivey: Oh. One of my worst subjects. I admire you. I just couldn't get the hang of it. Are your studies oconcentrated on a particular era, epoch, etc., jhonora? Or a particular group, country, ?

jhonora: AY, we've been working here to preserve a 17-room mansion of Afr. Amer. from eminent domain.

AmosNY: Hi Selma!

ryan: Yes, primarily from the Mississipi delta and to the various slums of chicago and the experiences of the people down south and further oppression in chicagio "the promised land"

3rdthawkins: hey Selma

vkn: thankee ryan

ryan: (during the great migration)

Ingrid_Doweary: Interesting, Ryan. I first studied migration in Sr. high school for an urban studies class.

ryan: My parents and grandparents were a part of that migration from the delta

Ingrid_Doweary: The delta refers to Mississippi, Ryan?

ryan: correct - MS Delta

Ingrid_Doweary: Please bear with me on the questions. I have lots to learn.

ryan: its just American history

AYWalton: The "Delta" is a region.

vkn: Welcome to the club Ingrid

AYWalton: It covers an area in both Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana---where the tributaries were off the Mississippi, and the culture and oppression of those who lived by sharecropping resided, and of course---their suffering lead to the birth of the blues! From "the Delta".

ryan: Delta generally is the "river delta" areas of Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansa along the Mississippi River

AYWalton: yes, I did forget part of Tennessee.

ryan: Yes AY

jhonora: Part of LA as well, along Hwy 65

Ingrid_Doweary: Be careful Ryan on getting me started on learning American History. The current events of America certainly calls for every american citizen to learn it.

AYWalton: if you use Memphis as a northern point and draw a pyramind down to the Gulf where the Mississippi flows into the Gulf, and encompass both sides of the river---you are looking at "the delta".

ryan: Yes Ingrid, the events of today, were shaped by events of the past

AYWalton: it is a geographic term (river delta) that has been incorporated into American culture to describe a region and culture of the American South.

ryan: AY - You are right (thats the motherland for my research)

AYWalton: where in Arkansas, Ingrid?

Ingrid_Doweary: My father is from Marianna, Lee County and my mother is from Camden, Ouachita County.

ryan: Marrianna is in the Delta, the others are not

AYWalton: and trust me---you drive 1 hour south of Little Rock and pull over for gas or ask directions or just strike up a conversation with the locals---you KNOW you are in the Delta! Marianna---oh gracious yes!!!!!

ryan: The delta starts at the river Blytheville north east corner on the river, then down to Louisiana.. The west about 100 miles almost to little rock

jhonora: Quite a few, there are even some further west in La., near Natchitoches.

AYWalton: one such place (not in the Delta) but over in the Territory is going strong---The Down Home Blues Club. this is their annual dusk to dawn weekend, in Rentiesville Oklahoma.

ryan: Yes, my father was born in Memphis, and Raised in the Arkansas delta outside Memphis. My mother was born in the Mississippi Delta (deep) Greenwood, MS.. Both migrated north

AYWalton: I hear ya ryan. I grew up on the other side of the state, not in the Delta at all. But my mom's side moved to Little Rock, but came out of northern Mississippi. One branch moved to Memphis and remained there. my mom's uncle Leonard, played trumpet in several bands all over the Delta. Probably saw lots of those juke joints.

ryan: My fathers brother lives in Forest City, Ar.. off Highway 1 (north south) in the Arkansas delta.. My cousin told me, from here, they call it "the black belt" its like 90% black all the way down to New Orleans in this strip

jhonora: No indeed, I pass one everytime I go to my folks in Shubuta, Ms.

AYWalton: It would be interesting to take a trip with a group of other interested folks down the Delta! If I had money I would love to do that and collect oral histories along the way.

jhonora: Would be a fun trip, Tom Dent did some interviews up that way.

ryan: Jhonora - Shubuta thats starting to get close..

jhonora: Shubuta and Pachuta.

Ingrid_Doweary: Okay, Ryan I get it, thanks

ryan: is that Noxubee County?

jhonora: That is Clarke County, Ms.

AYWalton: ahh yes, Noxubee county. I have been doing some research in that county for someone.

ryan: ok (same area) - what are your names in that area?

Selma: Nite folks..just dropped in for a few

jhonora: Nelson and Brown, don't have too much thus far.

vkn: Ingrid_Doweary aremyou planning to to AAGHS in Oct

AYWalton: been researching Douglas, Garvins, and Carpenters.

Ingrid_Doweary: I was, but I'm not sure if the funds will be available.

vkn: Ingrid_Doweary are you planning to to AAGHS in Oct

ryan: Stange this - one of my aunts told me our grandmother was from Noxepata, MS (Noxubee).. But all records show Marshall county.. She is (lets say, getting up there). but I can't understand where she pulled this name from.. The place really exist, but no records there

vkn: Yup pennies are tight and scarce

ryan: I do know, my uncles wife Haynes are from Noxubee

Ingrid_Doweary: Vkn, I plan to attend if I can find the funds to do so.

vkn: I hear ya

ryan: Shautauk, MS - Haynes

jhonora: Dem AAGHS have to leave the east coast sometimes lol

3rdthawkins: gotta go, gonna give ghe cpu to my niece so she can have something to do, getting a little bored for a 1 yr old

AYWalton: well folks, I have to run. Have a great evening everyone.

Ingrid_Doweary: Evening AY

jhonora: Got to do more work for the landmark application for the S. W. Green House. I'm going too. See y'all.

ryan: lata yall

Ingrid_Doweary: Bye Ryan Okay, Vkn.

daviss: time to get to running I guess. so many phone calls coming in nite all